Health

Extended reality (XR) technologies are still mostly related to gaming, entertainment, and social media, but their applications are evolving quickly as more consumers and businesses test out immersive experiences.

CVS facilitates vaccination efforts for US employers—but it might have missed the boat: CVS’ Return Ready program is connecting US employers with vaccination sites to turbocharge their return-to-work plans—which will be key as businesses reopen to the public.

US Senate tries to knock down telehealth barriers: 50 US senators reintroduced the CONNECT Act in an effort to make pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities permanent—which should help boost healthcare access in the US.

Amwell is letting clients access all its offerings and third-party digital health applications in one spot—here’s how this will help with scalability and address some of the top user pain points with telehealth.

The CMS may repeal a long-awaited hospital price transparency rule it just enforced, much to hospitals’ liking—here’s how digital health solutions could disrupt the healthcare payments space and address this contentious issue.

Will rising healthcare costs end employer-sponsored health benefits? Not if the gov’t steps up to lend a helping hand, according to most large US employers—and their call for help with insurance coverage is good news for digital health companies like Accolade and Grand Rounds.

Say hello to CVS Health Ventures: CVS launched its own digital health investments arm—a move that should help it benefit its other healthcare businesses and lure in future healthcare partnerships.

Medtronic and Surgical Theater partnered to use AR to boost real-time neurosurgery visualizations. While hospitals like Johns Hopkins are turning to AR to streamline surgeries, it’ll likely take some time before cash-strapped hospitals can hope for wide-scale implementation of the tech.